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Monday, February 20, 2017

Grow Community

In a previous blog
posting, I mentioned a Study Circle that was formed to embrace and walk with
one of our newest members in the Congregation.The next topic of study is Community – one of the four pillars of our
life.The others are prayer, study, and
ministry.

During the
preparation for this week’s gathering, I contemplated both the materials
provided for our study and my own experiences of having lived in communities.Many nuggets of wisdom regarding community
were quoted in the study materials, but the one that most resonated with me was
an article from our Constitution which says:

“When values and goals are held in
common, gifts nurtured, mistakes forgiven, and when persons are consistently
and warmly loved, we grow together toward the ideal set forth by Fr. Samuel [our
founder].”

Reflecting upon
that statement, I realized that this is truly my experience of life-giving
communities; and like you, I have had many engagements with community both in
the Congregation and before I became a member of this Congregation.I also remember a conversation with my mother
when she spoke of marriage and what made a marriage work – basically the same
principles noted above.

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